There was a record amount of interest in Erasmus last year, but not everyone will be able to attend.

"The high school has obtained Erasmus+ accreditation last year," explains Fabienne Duverger, a professor of economics and management at the secondary school in Bagnolais and member of the Erasmus+ steering team of the school. "Since this year, internships abroad and class trips entirely funded by the European Union have been set up, and recently, students from the vocational high school have left in Alicante, Spain, others in Slovakia or Norway,…

Last year, a record number of students went abroad as part of the Erasmus+ program. According to data from the House of Foreign Cooperation (DZS), there were already 35 thousand of them, in 2019 it was almost 22 thousand students. Interest is higher every year, so universities have to reject some applications or shorten the length of stay. According to DZS spokeswoman Martina Nevolná, the budget allocated by the European Commission is not enough…